With rat behavior changing drastically at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, SPH alumna Dorothy Maffei argues in new research the impact on human health should be viewed as a community health challenge.
New research co-authored by SPH's Jyotsna Jagai finds land-based and water-based environmental exposures may be driving risks of aggressive prostate cancer.
SPH's World Health Organization Collaborating Center works with occupational health practitioners in Ghana and Nigeria to reduce emissions of and exposure to mercury among artisanal gold miners.
UIC's Community Engagement Alliance Against COVID-19 Disparities initiative will focus on strengthening COVID-19 vaccine confidence and access in Chicago-area Black and Latino communities.
SPH's Policy, Practice and Prevention Research Center is a part of a statewide group studying the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of rural residents.
A new project funded by the CDC equips citizen scientists with research skills to collaborate on evaluating the causes and solutions to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in at-risk communities.
This report explores how CPS schools in certain geographic areas with distinct racial and ethnic student profiles face a disproportionate burden of emissions from Toxic Release Inventory facilities.
The Chicago Health Atlas, a free community health data resource for neighborhood-level health data for Chicago’s 77 community areas, is moving to the UIC School of Public Health.
Dropped coverage due to unaffordable premiums is leading to patients missing preventive care and timely clinical help, leaving insurance companies with a sicker pool of patients.
UIC's COVID-19 Street Outreach Team deliver information on COVID-19 testing, vaccinations and PPE to Chicago’s neighborhoods at high risk for COVID-19 infection.
